Joseph Krasil'shchik's introductory lectures on the Geometry of Differential Equations

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Autumn 2010

Lectures take place at the Independent University of Moscow on Wednesday evenings from 17:30 to 19:10 in room 206

The first lecture is on 15 September

Short syllabus

  • Jets of bundles
    The Cartan distribution
    Symmetries of the Cartan distribution
    The Lie-Bäcklund theorem
  • Nonlinear differential equations and operators
    Classical symmetries of differential equations, their computation and application
    The Bianci-Lie theorem
  • Infinite jets and geometric structures on them
    The Cartan distribution on infinite jets and its symmetries
    Linearizations and evolutionary vector fields
  • Prolongations of differential equations
    Infinitely prolonged equations
    Higher symmetries of differential equations, their computation and application
    Recursion operators for symmetries